Martin Heller

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Martin Heller (2007)

Martin Heller (born October 25, 1952 in Basel ) is a Swiss cultural entrepreneur, exhibition organizer, curator and author .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1971, Martin Heller initially trained as a drawing teacher at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Basel before studying ethnology, art history and European folklore at the University of Basel . At the same time he wrote art reviews, worked as an intermediary and curated the first exhibitions.

From 1986 he was a curator, then from 1990 director of the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich , from 1997 also director of the Museum Bellerive Zürich. There he is responsible for the fields of visual communication, design, photography and popular culture, for the poster collection (until 1995) and for the graphic collection (until 1992 and again from 1997) and realizes a large number of exhibitions and publications. As the first chairman of the Swiss Werkbund he realized a. a. numerous conferences on topics such as home, quality and ecology as well as design competitions. There are also courses at museums and universities in Germany and abroad, including Montreal , Paris , the University of Zurich , and ETH Zurich . Between 1995 and 1997 he was visiting professor at the State University of Design in Karlsruhe , from 2000 he was visiting professor at the universities of Bern (postgraduate course in subject didactics), Basel (cultural management), at the University of Applied Arts Vienna (exhibition and cultural communication management) and at the university St. Gallen (culture and economy). From 1999 to 2003 Martin Heller was artistic director of the Swiss national exhibition Expo.02 . He then worked as a self-employed cultural entrepreneur (Heller Enterprises Zurich), author and exhibition organizer with cultural-political projects, particularly in Germany, Austria, France and Switzerland. From 2004 to 2008 he was a member of the Board of Directors of Vitra Holding AG. From 2005 Martin Heller has been the artistic director of Linz 2009 - European Capital of Culture . From 2010 he developed the content of the Agora in the Humboldt Forum Berlin.

Heller lives in Zurich and Berlin .

Exhibitions (selection)

Museum of Design Zurich:

  • 1987: passion. Popular design from Switzerland (together with Walter Keller )
  • 1988: British point of view! Photography from England (together with Maureen O. Paley)
  • 1988: attacks. Poster language in Zurich 1978-88 (together with Alain Marendaz)
  • 1989: World Stories. Photo albums from the Herzog collection
  • 1989: imitations. Imitation and Model: The Lust for the Wrong (together with Jörg Huber and Hans Ulrich Reck)
  • 1990: “With Pikasso you make Kasso”. Art and the art world in comics (together with Cuno Affolter and Urs Hangartner)
  • 1990: Important pictures. Photography in Switzerland (together with Urs Stahel)
  • 1991: Advertising is for everyone (together with Walter Keller)
  • 1993: time travel. Images, machines, strategies, puzzles (together with Georg Christoph Tholen and Michael Scholl)
  • 1994: Edward Quinn. Photographer, Nice
  • 1994: The 99 Worst Posters
  • 1995: Exhibition on security and cooperation (together with Ulrich Binder)
  • 1995: In the face of death. Photographs from Cambodia
  • 1996: Universal. always, everywhere, everything (together with Cornel Windlin )
  • 1998: Dialogue in the Dark (together with Eva Afuhs and Eva Keller)
  • 1998: Medium - a world in between (together with André Vladimir Heiz and Michael Pfister)
  • 1999: The Swiss Autobahn (together with Andreas Volk)

Miscellaneous:

  • 2010: Real city. Wishes as reality (together with Angelika Fitz)
  • 2010: We managers! (in cooperation with Gesa Schneider )

Publications (selection)

Museum of Design Zurich:

  • 1987: passion. Popular design from Switzerland (together with Walter Keller) Zurich, ISBN 3-907065-25-5
  • 1988: attacks. Poster language in Zurich 1978-88 (together with Alain Marendaz) Zurich, ISBN 3-907065-30-9
  • 1989: World Stories. Photo albums from the Herzog Collection , Zurich, ISBN 3-85791-159-X
  • 1989: imitations. Imitation and model: From the lust for the wrong (together with Jörg Huber and Hans Ulrich Reck) Basel, Zurich, ISBN 3878772637
  • 1990: “With Pikasso you make Kasso”. Art and the art world in comics (together with Cuno Affolter and Urs Hangartner) Zurich, ISBN 3-907010-50-7
  • 1990: Important pictures. Photography in Switzerland (together with Urs Stahel) Zurich, Parquet-The Everyday Life, ISBN 3905080087
  • 1991: Advertising is there for everyone (together with Walter Keller) Zurich, ISBN 3-905080-11-7
  • 1993: Time travel (together with Georg Christoph Tholen), Zurich, ISBN 3-87877-409-5
  • 1994: Edward Quinn. Photographer, Nice Zurich, ISBN 3-905080-50-8
  • 1995: Handbook on Security and Cooperation (together with Ulrich Binder) Basel, ISBN 3-87877-561-X
  • 1996: Die Klasse (together with André Gelpke and Ulrich Görlich ) Zurich, ISBN 3-907065-63-8
  • 1996: Universal. always, everywhere, everything (together with Cornel Windlin ) Zurich, ISBN 3-907065-65-4
  • 1999: The Swiss Autobahn (together with Andreas Volk) Zurich, ISBN 3-907065-81-6

Miscellaneous:

  • 2005: the hotel. The wall. The future of nature . The book for the state exhibition 05, edited by Martin Heller and Benedikt Erhard. Tappeiner Verlag, Lana / South Tyrol / Italy, ISBN 88-7073-367-X
  • 2006: The Bremen World Game. City and culture. A model published by Martin Heller, Lutz Liffers, Ulrike Osten, Bremer Weltspiel project office. transcript Verlag Bielefeld, ISBN 3899424859
  • 2008: agent-provocateur.ch - What annoys us and why not. Edited by Plinio Bachmann, Martin Heller. Scheidegger & Spiess Verlag, ISBN 978-3-85881-241-4
  • 2008: Linz Texas - a city with connections Exhibition catalog. Edited by Angelika Fitz, Martin Heller, Linz 2009 OrganizationsGmbh. Springer-Verlag / Vienna, ISBN 978-3-211-78896-7
  • 2009: The program Linz 2009 - European Capital of Culture Ed. Linz OrganizationsGmbh, artistic director: Martin Heller. Springer-Verlag / Vienna, ISBN 321189215X
  • 2010: We managers! Everything is under control? Edited by Martin Heller, Gesa Schneider. With essay The world revolution of managers. By Constantin Seibt . Verlag NZZ Libro, Zurich, ISBN 978-3-03823-668-9
  • 2010: Real city. Wishes as reality. Edited by Angelika Fitz, Martin Heller. Engelhardt and Bauer, Karlsruhe, ISBN 978-3-03-302748-0

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literature

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personal data
SURNAME Heller, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss cultural entrepreneur, exhibition organizer, curator and author
DATE OF BIRTH October 25, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel